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It would be nice if the doctor treated your child more like a human being instead of a piece of meat.
My daughter’s heart condition was a disaster; she suffered brain damage after an operation 15 years ago. No one could face us, no one talked to us, and when I say no one I mean doctors, nurses, health visitors, GP, community nurse. Mind you, the general practitioner did not get any letters for over three months. All I can remember is that he retired in the meantime and I was alone in the surgery with the new doctor and the receptionist. We didn’t even sit down. He read out to me a long list of everything she couldn’t do. I stood there and tried not …